T K B O O K V0.1


Index:

*Introduction
*Bindings:
*TODO
*Thanks to
*Contact


Introduction:

I always wished to read a hole book (eText) on the screen.
Of course, one can do this with a simple texteditor - but is this really
comfortable to read a whole book? I looked on the web to find such a
tool running under Linux/Windows but could not find something appropriate.

I decided to create such a tool on my own and putted my thoughts to
HTML browsers and PDF Viewers. Thats why the look and feel of this program
is more browser-like and not like an editor. It means that Tkbook is not
for text editing but for reading. Tkbook should be easy to use and 
self explaining - well almost! I tried to use KDE-Icons where I could
to make this tool looking nice...

I wrote this tool completely in the fabulous TCL/TK scriptlanguage.
This has the advantage of running under several Operating Systems like 
Linux,Unix,Windows,Mac...(Tested only for Linux and Windows/WINNT) Mac Users:
Reports are welcome!


Bindings:

Mouse:
You can drag the eText by clicking and moving it. The left mousebutton is used
for slow scrolling and the middle one for fast scrolling. The right mousebutton
is used to popup the menu.

Keyboard
* F1: Opens up this help
* F3: Open a eText File
* F4: Set the bookmark
* F5: Goto the bookmark
* F10: Enters the menubar
* ESC: Close Tkbook

You can scroll slow the eText by pressing UP/DOWN or fast by pressing the
PGUP/PGDOWN Keys.


TODO:

* Find menu
* more bookmarks
* Trying to add antialiasing with t1lib (Would be a great hack, tough!)
* Direct eText download from the web
* Wheel mouse support for Linux
* Small Bugfixing :-)
* Renice of eText (Inteligent textwrapping, this is partly done)
* Chapter recognizing
* More options
* Supporting simple HTML tags
* Direct eText download from the web


Thanks to:

Marko Macek for his great editor called "FTE". It is such nice
to use this tool for programming!

And after all to the Editors of all eBooks on the web of course.


Contact:

If you have suggestions or want to report a bug just send me a mail:
<sery@bluewin.ch>